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More and more, the college basketball regular season fades into the background for the general sports public.Early entries to the NBA Draft have left the sport with few players who become household names by the time they are upperclassmen.Creighton...

Snow through the Southeast and mid-Atlantic derailed basketball schedules Wednesday and Thursday, pushing the first Duke-North Carolina matchup into the third week of February.The weekend may make up for missed time.Quality games highlight both...

Tyler Ennis made sure Wednesday there wouldn’t be a change atop the Athlon Sports power rankings this weekend.His unlikely 35-footer as time expired to defeat Pittsburgh keeps Syracuse undefeated and at the No. 1 spot in the power rankings...

This regular season has been unusually unpredictable, especially when it comes to the top teams from back in November.Athlon Sports isn’t above changing it’s opinions based on more games and more of the season. For better or worse,...

Even in the last few days, bubble season has taken an unexpected turn.A week ago, a bubble watch would have had West Virginia and St. John’s on the outskirts of the NCAA Tournament. A few big wins later, and one of those teams is projected in...

No one is going to confuse today’s game with Paul Westphal’s Loyola Marymount teams, but the tide may be turning.Scoring had been creeping lower and lower in recent years, to a point where the NCAA Basketball Rules Committee hoped an...

At the end of January, Iowa State appeared to be falling back to earth after a 14-game wining streak to start the season.After a 2-4 swoon, the Cyclones may be playing some of their best basketball of the season thanks in part to the play of Melvin...

Let’s face it: There aren’t many reasons college basketball would dominate the SportsCenter conversation these days. Even with the Super Bowl over, there’s the NBA and the Winter Olympics to dominate coverage.Then, Marcus Smart...

In an interview before the season, Oklahoma State’s Marcus Smart said Texas Tech was his least favorite opposing arena.“The atmosphere just isn’t there,” he said.On Saturday, the atmosphere at Texas Tech was too much.Smart,...

After last week, maybe college basketball needs a bit of a breather for the weekend.Syracuse’s overtime win over Duke was the game of the year, but Saturday and Sunday also wrecked the top 25 with seven ranked teams losing to unranked foes....

Determining the top spot this week was easy. Arizona lost. Syracuse won its biggest game of the season. And that’s that.The rest of the rankings, though, remain difficult to determine. Wichita State, San Diego State and Florida are slicing...

What’s the fun in pinpointing that Doug McDermott is a strong contender for Big East Player of the Year? That’s a little obvious considering he’s the nation’s second leading scorer.Of course, McDermott isn’t the only...

For most teams, January is the first normal month of the college basketball season.No breaks for finals. No trips to far-flung locations for tournaments in front of sparse crowds. And no wild fluctuations between the caliber of competition in non-...

This is the stage of the season where every coach starts to dread the unexpected.More or less, we know what to expect from top teams around the country. Of course, there will be upsets and surprises, but for the most part we can count on the good...

Perhaps the greatest threat to Syracuse’s undefeated start won’t be games like Saturday, when the Orange defeated Duke in overtime in a wild atmosphere at the Carrier Dome.Instead, the end for Syracuse’s winning streak may be...

Stringing together wins in the Big Ten hasn’t been easy this season, even for the most historically consistent of teams.Wisconsin and Ohio State have faltered since undefeated starts. A different Indiana team shows up nearly any night.And...

Jim Boeheim called the win over Duke one of the best games he’d coached at the Carrier Dome. ESPN’s Dick Vitale called it one of the best games he’d ever called.The only question: Why did it take so long for such a game to occur?...

The race for the national freshman of the year has been in flux for most of the season, which is great news for lists like these.Jabari Parker started on a hot streak before Aaron Gordon took center stage in a head-to-head matchup between Duke and...

Take a break from Super Bowl preparations Saturday — and Sunday — to watch a little college basketball. Trust us.While last weekend was short on top matchups, this week promises plenty of key storylines on heading into the biggest...

The number of undefeated teams remaining in college basketball has remained steady at three since Jan. 14.Saturday may be the single day that’s most likely to change.Granted, the three undefeated teams — Arizona, Syracuse and Wichita...

The ceiling for the 2013-14 Kentucky team continues to be a moving target.Before the season, Kentucky's fantastic freshmen had Big Blue Nation thinking national championship and quietly talking about running the table.The gaudy record was put...

The season has reached that stage of the year where one question is inevitable: How is the selection committee going to find 68 teams to play in this Tournament?Teams we thought were in good shape weeks ago are working their way out. Colorado...

Of all the first-round upsets in last season’s tournament people picked, almost no one took Harvard over New Mexico. La Salle was just as much of a surprising moving from the First Four to the Sweet 16.And then there’s Florida Gulf...

The weekend in college basketball ended with another coaching milestone for Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, one he extended Monday with a victory over Pittsburgh.Saturday, though, will be perhaps just as notable. The first meeting between Krzyzewski...